Bill > SF3225

This bill modifies Minnesota's existing consumer protection law regarding fee advertisements by creating a specific exemption for food and beverage service establishments. Currently, businesses are required to disclose all mandatory fees in their pricing, but the bill now exempts restaurants, hotels, bars, food concessions, grocery stores, and catering services from having to include mandatory fees in their advertised prices. The bill specifies that these establishments can still include mandatory fees if they are clearly displayed with an explanation of the fee's purpose, and they must meet federal food labeling type-size requirements. The exemption applies to individual food and beverage items sold directly to consumers, which means these establishments will have more flexibility in how they present pricing information. The bill amends existing statutes by removing the previous requirement for food and beverage establishments to include automatic gratuities in their advertised prices and adds a new section to explicitly exempt these types of businesses from the mandatory fee disclosure rules. This change aims to provide more operational flexibility for food service businesses while still maintaining some transparency for consumers.

Business and Industry

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF3225&ssn=0&y=2025